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...remains to be seen whether Wilkerson’s narrative will end where former Detroit Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick’s hubris-fueled collapse did: in the penitentiary. Last month, Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to eight felony charges of obstruction of justice after his lackadaisical attempt to snuff out rumors of the extramarital affair he was carrying on over thousands of SMS messages with his chief of staff. Kilpatrick’s cover-up looked like something out of the Huey Long playbook: intimidating and firing police officers, lying under oath and all the while using his privileged position...
...professors said that Congress should give the FDA the power to restrict levels of nicotine and to more forcefully regulate the chemical content of snuff in order to ensure that tobacco companies are not engineering their products to increase use among young people or boost addiction in current users...
...second study by the three School of Public Health professors, which was published in the journal Tobacco Control, examined whether the manipulation of nicotine content and the use of different flavorings in moist snuff was a strategy employed by tobacco companies to increase chewing tobacco use among youth...
...researchers found that tobacco companies have increased the nicotine content in some brands of moist snuff and have employed different approaches to making snuff more palatable. They also found that marketing efforts have increased, and that moist snuff usage among teens has risen...
...more as mayor than he did. He was always away making movies and everything." Engh also charges that Ventura was "two-faced." One of his initiatives as mayor was to stop cigarettes from being sold at convenience stores. "Yet," Engh says, "he would sit there at the meetings chewing snuff and spitting in the cup. I thought that was rude and disrespectful to the audience...